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Amazing how they all mount up. I think this is an exhaustive list. alpinestars – tech8 motorbike bootsaltberg – heavy walking bootaltberg heavy walking shoesaltberg – light walking shoesclarks – ats sandalclarks – black leather dress loafersclarks – brown suede leather loafersconverse – chucks hi-topconverse – chucks low-topdewalt – steel toe cap trainersm&s – flipflopsm&s…

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Yes really. Karin mailed me the link… Find Jobs in at JobServe. Jobs Much like football, beer is a funny old game. But unlike football, there s a science behind it. Our client is one of the leaders in Professional Beer Tasting. They ve even won Queen’s awards for their work, and are currently looking…

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A few years ago I started packing for business travel using a checklist, so that I at least had the option of considering all the things I should have packed, before actually departing. I’ve posted the list in the sidebar of this blog and welcome suggestions and additions to it; there’s a fairly obvious geek…

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UPDATE: Tuesday 8th July 2030 UK time – video seems ok? Extraordinary weekend; saturday was spent at OpenTech because Ben Laurie invited me to be on his “Ben Laurie and Friends talk Security” panel session; so I can say truthfully that I have done a gig on-stage at ULU… There are friends of mine who…

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Funny, I was going to start this blog post with a specific phrase, but El Reg beat me to it… Google’s Street View spycar clocked in London It’s time to lock up your daughters, and here’s why: The roving spycar of Google’s Street View has been spotted prowling the mean streets of London…

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Epic fail. BBC NEWS Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a “set-back…

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Is it me, or can one really not use a “Saved Search” pseudo-folder, to mark a bunch of messages as “read”? I have to re-type the search manually, select all, and then right-click to get “Mark > As Read”. If you try that in a Saved Search, the results are undetermined, or nothing happens.

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Dunning-Kruger effect The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge (or skill) tend to think that they know more (or have more skill) than they do, while others who have much more knowledge tend to think that they know less. Dunning and Kruger were awarded a 2000 Ig Nobel prize for…

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The last 4 or 5 years have seen me work on several projects in Sun, less and less directly focused upon security architecture, design and evangelism of the sort I really enjoy. That’s changing – as of this week I have a new role, and once again will be back at the security coalface with…

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Yay! Moo just announced they’re doing business cards. £10.99 for 50, it looks like.

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 “And some people wondered, ‘What does it really mean to play something as slow as possible? Couldn’t it always be a little slower?’ They finally decided that you could play until the instrument stopped working. They figured that a new organ would last for 639 years, so they decided you could play this piece so…

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The Cycle Trailer in Ghana Barriers to adoption of cycle trailers in Ghana; the details are fascinating, something so simple can be messed-up by not thinking clearly enough and not asking the right questions…

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